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Whereas Chamberlain sees nothing but good arising from imperialism, Kipling sees it as "the White Man's Burden" which goes completely unappreciated by the "Half-devil and half child" (Wall 9) who makes up the population of the Third World. Chamberlain mocks and belittles the reasonable arguments of the anti-imperialist Briton, while Kipling complains about the "silent, sullen peoples" (Wall 10) of the Third World who are too stupid and self-destructive to understand that the imperialists are there to save them and feed them and heal them. Kipling does not even name or deal with the arguments against imperialism, for he sees no reason at all for such arguments. The saintly, unappreciated imperialist, to Kipling, receives "The judgment of [his] peers!" (Wall 10), but that judgment, he says, should increase the imperialist's dedication to imperialism and the good it does the Third World.
Both Kipling and Chamberlain see nothing but good coming from imperialism. They do not understand how anyone can argue against imperialism. Kipling sees it as the source of great good for the poor natives of the Third World, while Chamberlain sees it as the source of great good for both the imperialist and the poor natives. Neither man considers for one moment that imperialism could be a form of slavery, or that the people of the Third World are being exploited for their labor and land and resources, or that those people have the sovereign right to live free and to choose their own government. They simply accept that the white man, the Briton, is superior to the African, or the Indian, and that the white man was created by nature or by God to save and rule the Third World.
Ferry states the same ideas with a more openly racism attitude than the first two: "Superior races have rights over inferior races" (Wall 12). Imperialism brings the French economic gain (Wall 12), civilizes the "inferior races" (Wall 12), is an expression of the patrio...